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Please read the built-in help window for scenario functions, because it has exactly what you’re looking for.
Consider also the ability to pseudo-AFK trusts though. I can leave FFXIV running a trust with Miqo while I go watch videos or something, and just let her handle a few runs then deal with the loot drops and updating my equipment manually for a few minutes. I just need to keep an eye on the game, particularly on chat, but XIVChat lets me do that easily. Miqo can get through a few runs while I watch a movie or something, so I don’t have to manually grind my combat job’s level up.
If you mean you have a scenario that you want to logout or exit the game on completion, that’s easy. Make a macro in the game that uses the
/logoutor/shutdowncommand, drag it to a hotbar, assign it a keybind, and have Miqo send the keypress for it at the end. This can be generalised out to use any chat commands at any time, really.There are already
return(),teleport(name[, estate]), andteleportIfNotThere(name[, estate])scenario commands, listed in the built-in help window.Closing Miqobot after closing the game is more difficult, but if you’re willing to use something like AutoHotkey to make an additional script, it could be done easily enough. For example, a loop that checks if FFXIV is still running, closes Miqobot and then exits if it isn’t, and waits a minute or so before rechecking if it is. There’s no method built into Miqobot for doing this, though.
I feel like I need to point out that the XIVChat plugin – which, IIRC, is on the official plugin repo – lets you use a windows OR android client as a two-way interface to your in-game chat. That is, there is both a windows client and an android one that can connect to your game via the plugin, and you can even set it up to work across the internet instead of the same network, and those client both receive and send chat.
More generally, the XIVLauncher “community” takes only a soft stance against sending data to the server. Official plugins are not allowed to do it, but there’s been built-in full support for “unofficial” plugin repos for a while now, operating through the in-game plugin installer rather than requiring manual compilation and installation.
@kit, I believe the Chat Extender plugin is long deprecated and nonfunctional, too.
I’d say be careful using it around other players, look into what people are saying on the forums, and probably practice with it on NPC dungeons (squadrons/trusts) first to get a feel what what she does and doesn’t do, but other people have certainly done it and been fine.
An important thing to note is that she will not target new enemies, at least in my experience. She’ll apparently switch off to heal your party members if you’re a healer, but if the mob dies, you will need to target the next one. Probably fine for bosses, but might be a little suspicious in group pulls of weaker mobs.
Also note that she can use positionals, dashes, and backsteps, but all of them are used blind, which is to say that she does NOT take into account obstacles or the arena you’re in. She can and will backstep you right off the combat arena if you’re not careful.
Keep in mind that my personal experience with combat assist is minimal: I’ve used it for about five minutes in a squadron dungeon. I mostly use the radar, MGP minigames, crafting, and fishing. If someone who has more experience with combat assist wants to chime in, trust their word in the event of conflicting information.
As safe as a bot can be (which is to say, technically safe but social safety is on you as the user), not sure but IIRC combat assist is decent-to-good on all classes/jobs now, and the ban risk is mostly a matter of intelligent use. I’ve use Miqo to bot MGP minigames during the MIR campaign for several days on end, stopping to log out only when I go to sleep. Never got so much as a single glance from GMs. OTOH, there are people who have done minigame grinding nonstop, instead of using the auto-afk feature Miqobot offers for it, and they’ve gotten checked.
Bottom line, Miqo’s safety is on you as the user to bot responsibly, but it you do that then you should be fine.
As has been gone over many times now, it’s not a matter of “I’m not comfortable using this feature”, it’s a matter of making the bot more visible, which brings more scrutiny, which brings greatly increased risk of official retribution. If Miqobot becomes a sufficiently large issue as far as SE is concerned, they may bring action against it. As things stand now, Miqo is subtle and not overly unbalancing to the game, which means that SE has bigger things to deal with and is content to mostly ignore us. If Miqo started being involved in RMT (which SE actively watches and bans for) then that would change, and the bot would probably be targeted as a means of stopping that from happening. Likewise, if it became notable and obvious to the general playerbase, complaints of bots would go up, scrutiny would increase, and more people would get banned – regardless of whether they use Miqo for RMT, MSQ, or PVP.
It’s not an issue of us not wanting to use the features, it’s an issue of safety for everyone who uses Miqobot. We don’t want the heat from SE.
Rule one of using a bot: don’t AFK bot. You need to be able to respond if something happens in the game, especially being sent a message.
Miqobot is technologically safe, which is to say that SE can’t detect it running. It doesn’t touch the game memory, only looks at it – which is not detectable – and send keyboard inputs to the window, like a normal user would.
However, no bot is socially safe – that’s up to you, the user, to take care of. Avoid suspicious activities like non-stop farming, taking weird paths to move, and ignoring people around you. Those are some of the most obvious indicators of a bot.
During the MIR events like this, scrutiny on MGP farmers is much higher, because it’s a natural time for people to use bots for it. That means you need to be even more careful. I always set my AFK times to a random range and set a pre-selected random number of games to play so I don’t do exactly 100 games and then stop, just in case a GM decides to look at logs that might include that. I turn auto-AFK on with a five minute timeout so when I’m standing in front of the game, I have the AFK icon. I try to look like someone playing minigames for a little while, then leaving to do something less repetitive because minigames fry your brain if you’re actually playing them for an hour or two.
And if you’re not watching the game itself, have a way to watch your chat. The XIVChat plugin is available for the quick launcher, and the clients are $5 – desktop or android – so you can have a small monitor to watch for messages and even respond. It can even be on a different desktop machine, or your phone, so you can fullscreen netflix or something.
I’m not a moderator, but I think that at this point, we can probably drop this subject. I’m not pointing fingers or assigning blame, and I think the actual moderator(s) would prefer it if nobody started, but we’ve wound up well off topic and I for one would like to avoid ending up in a flame war where people dogpile flyg for their perspective. Whether you agree with their interpretation or not, let’s let it go, yeah?
